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...Knox incorporated her company for $300,000. In 1925 this was raised to $1,000,000. Since 1913, Rose Knox's son James has been her assistant. They control the stock, keep profits closely secret. Knox gelatine is currently made in factories at both Johnstown and Camden, N. J., is sold in 300,000 stores the world around. About 80% of Knox sales are plain gelatine, made from calves' bones mostly imported from the Argentine and processed in lime water for six weeks until the gelatine is boiled off.* In 1935, follow-ing competitors JellO, Royal Gelatin...
...Full of apple toddies and discontent'' for two years after Appomattox, blond 24-year-old Edward Cantrell, veteran of nine campaigns with the Army of the Potomac, lit out in 1867 to join the 29th Infantry at Fort Camden, Tex. He was not long in getting involved with a colorful crew of filibusterers. The first step was when he fell for a beautiful "rebel hellcat" named Brandon Hawkes who led him on only long enough to frame him for the murder of a carpetbagger. The real murderer was her cousin Ranee Hawkes, chief gunrunner and suitor...
...smoothing over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O.'s John Lewis...
Last week the usually careful New York Times printed a report from Camden, N. J., just across the Delaware from Philadelphia, that Curtis had made an offer to buy Camden's $10,000,000 City Hall. Fortnight earlier had come rumors from Philadelphia of a poll of 16,800 Curtis stockholders. From $6,000 in 1934, Pennsylvania had upped its taxes on Curtis Publishing Co. to $716,000 in 1936, rumored a levy of $1,800,000 in 1937. Delaware and New Jersey were mentioned as new home States for Curtis. There taxes would be around...
...Camden story displeased aging Vice President & Treasurer Philip Sheridan Collins. "There's absolutely nothing to it!" he snorted. "We never made them an offer and wouldn't be able to use their building. It's not suited to manufacture...